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WASHINGTON – 80 Members of Congress called for funding to help Veterans with Gulf War Illness. Led by Representatives Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (D-MP), the bipartisan effort in support of a treatment research program targeted at “improved health and lives of Veterans who have Gulf War Illness” comes in the midst of a series of Congressional hearings on military toxic exposures.
In a joint letter, the cosigners urged the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to provide funding needed “to continue this vital and effective program and to support its progress into more advanced, larger-scale clinical trials,” calling it, “a model of how to conduct treatment-oriented research to address complex toxic exposure health outcomes.” The Congressional efforts were supported by 25 organizations, including Veterans and military service organization and toxic exposure advocacy organizations, who this week cosigned their own similar letter to th
How courts may make paid military leave as common as paid sick leave USERRA cases could one day wind up being heard by the Supreme Court. (Patrick Semansky/AP) A legal battle is unfolding over paid military leave in courtrooms across the country, as a new wave of class-action lawsuits and court rulings raises a question: are National Guard and Reserve troops entitled to paid short-term military leave under federal law? Reserve component troops are suing their employers across the country, arguing that the courts should interpret the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 to include paid leave as one of the “rights and benefits” protected under the law commonly known as USERRA. Their argument: short-term paid military leave is comparable to other forms of short-term paid leave like jury duty leave or sick leave, therefore employers who offer other paid leaves are violating USERRA if they don’t offer paid short-term military leave of comparable l
ROA Endorses Inauguration Warning by Former Secretaries of Defense
ROA endorses warning by former defense secretaries not to use military force in connection with the 2021 presidential inauguration.
Members of ROA . . . swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. That reflects the glory of America, a nation of laws that safeguard our freedom and way of life.” ROA’s executive director, retired Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey E. Phillips.
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 5, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Reserve Officers Association of the United States, now doing business as the Reserve Organization of America, today endorsed the warning regarding any potential use of military force to interfere with the lawful transition of presidential power, expressed by all ten living former secretaries of defense in a Jan. 3 Washington Post opinion piece.
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